NEW DELHI: The Congress vice president, Rahul Gandhi, on Monday took to Twitter to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Gujarat's Gandhinagar and his subsequent plans in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) bastion.

AGARTALA: A Tripura Border Security Force (BSF) commandant, Deepak Mondal, was attacked by unknown miscreants on Monday. Deepak, who belonged to the 145th battalion of the BSF, is reportedly in a critical condition and will be airlifted to Kolkata.

NEW DELHI: Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commissioned the third of the four indigenously-built Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes "INS Kiltan" under Project 28 (Kamorta class) into the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam's Naval Dockyard.

Ghaziabad (UP): Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, the parents of 14-year-old Aarushi, who was found murdered nine years ago in Noida, have finally walked free from the Dasna jail here after the prison authorities received the required court order.
Rajesh Talwar's brother Dinesh Talwar and their lawyers Manoj Sisodia and Tanveer Ahmed Mir went to the Dasna Jail to receive them.

BENGALURU: At least six persons were killed and some others feared trapped when a two-storeyed building collapsed due to a suspected LPG cylinder blast near Ejipura in the city Monday, the police said.

NEW DELHI: The CPM central committee (CC) has rejected general secretary Sitaram Yechury’s and Bengal wing’s suggestion to include the Congress in the grand secular coalition against the BJP on national level.

RAIPUR: The national general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saroj Pandey on Monday raked up a controversy by making a comment that if the killing of her party workers continued in Kerala, "eyes of the attackers will be gouged out."

NEW DELHI: An opinion vote became necessary as the differences as to including the Congress in the secular front on national level against BJP continues in the CPM central committee. The CC meeting that concludes on Monday might put the issue for voting.

NEW DELHI: A civic agency employee, who was attacked by a group of unidentified men with knives, was saved by his pet dog that pounced on the tormentors of its owner in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area, police said Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Indian Railway PRO Anil Saxena on Sunday informed that a show-cause notice has been served on the catering contractor of Tejas Express---train running between Goa and Mumbai---after 24 passengers fell ill due to food poisoning.

DARJEELING: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed that the Centre will be withdrawing seven companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and three companies of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), that are deployed in Darjeeling and Kalimpong from October 16.

NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his claims of growing friendship between India and the United States, also sweeping US President Donald Trump and Pakistan away in a single stroke.

LUCKNOW: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that India has ceased to be a weak nation since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government at the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

SHIMLA: In a blow to the Congress ahead of Assembly polls, Himachal Pradesh Rural Development minister Anil Sharma Sunday quit the Virbhadra Singh government and joined the BJP.Sharma, son of former Union Communication Minister Sukh Ram, said, "I have quit the Himachal cabinet and joined the BJP today".

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court has said that the possibility of presence of outsiders and persons other than domestic help Hemraj in the Noida residence of the Talwars could not be ruled on the fateful night in the Aarushi murder case.

PATNA: Lamenting that no Indian university figures among the top 500 globally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the government intends to unshackle these institutions and provide Rs. 10,000 crore to 20 varsities to ensure that they are counted among the best in the world.